American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
ISSN: 0193-1857
 

Mechanisms of Liver Injury. III. Oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of hepatitis C virus
Jinah Choi and J.-H. James Ou
 

Lipid Metabolism and Liver Inflammation. II. Fatty liver disease and fatty acid oxidation
Janardan K. Reddy and M. Sambasiva Rao
 

TRANSLATIONAL PHYSIOLOGY
Hedgehog signaling maintains resident hepatic progenitors throughout life
Jason K. Sicklick, Yin-Xiong Li, Alaa Melhem, Eva Schmelzer, Marzena Zdanowicz, Jiawen Huang, Montserrat Caballero, Jeff H. Fair, John W. Ludlow, Randall E. McClelland, Lola M. Reid, and Anna Mae Diehl
 

Gain of allelic gene expression for IGF-II occurs frequently in Barrett's esophagus
Linda A. Feagins, Nathan Susnow, Hui Ying Zhang, Stephanie Pearson, Charles Owen, William F. Schmalstieg, Lance S. Terada, Stuart J. Spechler, Ruben D. Ramirez, and Rhonda F. Souza
 

MUCOSAL BIOLOGY
Roles for p21waf1/cip1 and p27kip1 during the adaptation response to massive intestinal resection
Wolfgang Stehr, Nicole P. Bernal, Christopher R. Erwin, Kathryn Q. Bernabe, Jun Guo, and Brad W. Warner
 

Parietal cell hyperstimulation and autoimmune gastritis in cholera toxin transgenic mice
Lymari Lopez-Diaz, Karen L. Hinkle, Renu N. Jain, Yana Zavros, Cynthia S. Brunkan, Theresa Keeley, Kathryn A. Eaton, Juanita L. Merchant, Catherine S. Chew, and Linda C. Samuelson
 

Endothelin-1, an ulcer inducer, promotes gastric ulcer healing via mobilizing gastric myofibroblasts and stimulates production of stroma-derived factors
Tsutomu Nishida, Shingo Tsuji, Arata Kimura, Masahiko Tsujii, Syuji Ishii, Toshiyuki Yoshio, Shinichiro Shinzaki, Satoshi Egawa, Takanobu Irie, Masakazu Yasumaru, Hideki Iijima, Hiroaki Murata, Sunao Kawano, and Norio Hayashi
 

Naturally arising CD4⁺CD25⁺ regulatory T cells suppress the expansion of colitogenic CD4⁺CD44^highCD62L^– effector memory T cells
T. Kanai, K. Tanimoto, Y. Nemoto, R. Fujii, S. Makita, T. Totsuka, and M. Watanabe
 

INFLAMMATION/IMMUNITY/MEDIATORS
Febrile-range temperature but not heat shock augments the acute phase response to interleukin-6 in human hepatoma cells
Stephen J. Wigmore, Kenneth C. H. Fearon, James A. Ross, Stephen J. McNally, William J. Welch, and O. James Garden
 

Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1, calcitonin gene-related peptide, and substance P mediate nociception in acute pancreatitis
Elizabeth C. Wick, Steven G. Hoge, Sarah W. Grahn, Edward Kim, Lorna A. Divino, Eileen F. Grady, Nigel W. Bunnett, and Kimberly S. Kirkwood
 

NAD(P)H oxidase contributes to the progression of remote hepatic parenchymal injury and endothelial dysfunction, but not microvascular perfusion deficits
Robert B. Dorman, Christian Wunder, Hamida Saba, Jennifer L. Shoemaker, Lee Ann MacMillan-Crow, and Robert W. Brock
 

HORMONES AND SIGNALING
Curcumin suppresses the expression of extracellular matrix genes in activated hepatic stellate cells by inhibiting gene expression of connective tissue growth factor
Shizhong Zheng and Anping Chen
 

Zymogen activation in a reconstituted pancreatic acinar cell system
Edwin C. Thrower, Alexander P. E. Diaz de Villalvilla, Thomas R. Kolodecik, and Fred S. Gorelick
 

Nongenomic effects of progesterone on the contraction of muscle cells from the guinea pig colon
Zuo-Liang Xiao, Weibiao Cao, Piero Biancani, and Jose Behar
 

Hepatocyte nuclear factor-1 is required for expression but dispensable for histone acetylation of the lactase-phlorizin hydrolase gene in vivo
Tjalling Bosse, Herbert M. van Wering, Marieke Gielen, Lauren N. Dowling, John J. Fialkovich, Christina M. Piaseckyj, Frank J. Gonzalez, Taro E. Akiyama, Robert K. Montgomery, Richard J. Grand, and Stephen D. Krasinski
 

NEUROREGULATION AND MOTILITY
Mechanosensory properties in the human gastric antrum evaluated using B-mode ultrasonography during volume-controlled antral distension
H. Gregersen, T. Hausken, J. Yang, S. Ødegaard, and O. H. Gilja
 

Effect of a selective chloride channel activator, lubiprostone, on gastrointestinal transit, gastric sensory, and motor functions in healthy volunteers
Michael Camilleri, Adil E. Bharucha, Ryuji Ueno, Duane Burton, George M. Thomforde, Kari Baxter, Sanna McKinzie, and Alan R. Zinsmeister
 

Effects of cholera toxin on the potential difference and motor responses induced by distension in the rat proximal small intestine in vivo
Shirin Kordasti, Maria Sapnara, Evan A. Thomas, Erik Lindstrom, Mikael Forsman, Joel C. Bornstein, and Henrik Sjövall
 

Quantifying esophageal peristalsis with high-resolution manometry: a study of 75 asymptomatic volunteers
Sudip K. Ghosh, John E. Pandolfino, Qing Zhang, Andrew Jarosz, Nimeesh Shah, and Peter J. Kahrilas
 

Quantifying EGJ morphology and relaxation with high-resolution manometry: a study of 75 asymptomatic volunteers
John E. Pandolfino, Sudip K. Ghosh, Qing Zhang, Andrew Jarosz, Nimeesh Shah, and Peter J. Kahrilas
 

LIVER AND BILIARY TRACT
Regulation of the mouse organic solute transporter -, Ost-Ost, by bile acids
Tamara Frankenberg, Anuradha Rao, Frank Chen, Jamie Haywood, Benjamin L. Shneider, and Paul A. Dawson
 

Coordinated induction of bile acid detoxification and alternative elimination in mice: role of FXR-regulated organic solute transporter-/ in the adaptive response to bile acids
Gernot Zollner, Martin Wagner, Tarek Moustafa, Peter Fickert, Dagmar Silbert, Judith Gumhold, Andrea Fuchsbichler, Emina Halilbasic, Helmut Denk, Hanns-Ulrich Marschall, and Michael Trauner
 

Mild increases in portal pressure upregulate vascular endothelial growth factor and endothelial nitric oxide synthase in the intestinal microcirculatory bed, leading to a hyperdynamic state
Juan G. Abraldes, Yasuko Iwakiri, Mauricio Loureiro-Silva, Omar Haq, William C. Sessa, and Roberto J. Groszmann
 

Adiponectin normalizes LPS-stimulated TNF- production by rat Kupffer cells after chronic ethanol feeding
Varsha Thakur, Michele T. Pritchard, Megan R. McMullen, and Laura E. Nagy
 

INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY
Proteomic analysis of iron overload in human hepatoma cells
Jiri Petrak, Denisa Myslivcova, Petr Man, Radek Cmejla, Jana Cmejlova, and Daniel Vyoral
 

Normalizing genes for quantitative RT-PCR in differentiating human intestinal epithelial cells and adenocarcinomas of the colon
Anders Bondo Dydensborg, Elizabeth Herring, Joëlle Auclair, Eric Tremblay, and Jean-Francois Beaulieu
 

REPORTS
Localization of the sulfate/anion exchanger in the rat liver
Fabio Quondamatteo, Wolfgang Krick, Yohannes Hagos, Marie-Helen Krüger, Katrin Neubauer-Saile, Rainer Herken, Giuliano Ramadori, Gerhard Burckhardt, and Birgitta C. Burckhardt